What is it? The committee of armed services focuses on aeronautical and space activities, along with the development of weapons and military operations. Basically, it deals with national security, including all branches of the military. Furthermore, it works with nuclear energy, petroleum reserves, and oversea education for civilians and military dependents. Additionally, it includes bills et al. that focus on pay, promotion, and retirement in the armed services. Lastly, it works with critical materials that are “necessary for the common defense.”
Bills Right now, the committee for the armed services is focusing on bills regarding the following issues:
Updating the defense travel system
Professional military education
Improving the Acquisition Act
Counter-insurgency strategy
It has been dealing with various other topics of debate as well.
News and Recent Issues
MILITARY'S EFFORTS TO PREVENT OUTBREAKS OF MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT INFECTIONS IN MILITARY HOSPITALS Many military personnel have unexpectedly developed harmful infections caused by Acinetobacter and other multidrug-resistant bacteria. It creates challenges for the military and it took a while for the infections to be under contorl. Evern though the infection problem has not been completely solved, infections are now lower because the department and military services strengthen infection, surveillance, control, and prevention in military hospitals. There will be new outbreaks posing as a continued risk as well. The military needs new methods of monitoring infections, and also needs to provide better training. The incidence of drug-resistant infections is a national and global problem that has grown dramatically over the past decade in civilian hospitals, and health experts warn that the problem could get worse in the next several years, as there are few new antibiotic treatments expected to be created by the current drug research pipelin.
MILITARY'S EFFORTS TO OVERSEE DISTANCE LEARNING AND FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES Military personnel are still seeking out college education opportunities, even with high operation tempo and deployment. In the last decade, the education environment has changed dramatically with distance-learning becoming the predominant method for learning due to its flexibility, and its portability. The bottom line: we must insist that all schools which accept tuition assitance funding offer a quality education... not just a degree.
Subcommittees and Membership IKE SKELTON U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO) has represented Missouri's Fourth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1977. Skelton, a native of Lexington, is a graduate of Wentworth Military Academy and the University of Missouri at Columbia where he received A.B. and L.L.B. degrees. Skelton was instrumental in bringing the Army Engineer School to Fort Leonard Wood and the B-2 Stealth bomber to Whiteman. He is a former chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Procurement, Tourism and Rural Development and the Congressional Rural Caucus. He and his late wife Susie have three sons. Skelton remarried Patricia Martin in 2009.
BUCK MCKEON McKeon was born on September 9, 1938, in Los Angeles. He grew up in Tujunga, CA and graduated from Verdugo Hills High School in 1956. After serving a two and a half year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he attended Brigham Young University. He is the “Champion” of easing the national debt, providing tax relief, preserving Social Security, reforming education, and supporting the troops. He has worked to bolster missile defense programs, supporting funding for the F-22, and has provided enhancements to effective, lighter-weight body armor and mine-resistant vehicles. He also once ran the committee as the chairman.
Committee of Armed Services
What is it?
The committee of armed services focuses on aeronautical and space activities, along with the development of weapons and military operations. Basically, it deals with national security, including all branches of the military. Furthermore, it works with nuclear energy, petroleum reserves, and oversea education for civilians and military dependents. Additionally, it includes bills et al. that focus on pay, promotion, and retirement in the armed services. Lastly, it works with critical materials that are “necessary for the common defense.”
Bills
Right now, the committee for the armed services is focusing on bills regarding the following issues:
It has been dealing with various other topics of debate as well.
News and Recent Issues
MILITARY'S EFFORTS TO PREVENT OUTBREAKS OF MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT INFECTIONS IN MILITARY HOSPITALS
Many military personnel have unexpectedly developed harmful infections caused by Acinetobacter and other multidrug-resistant bacteria. It creates challenges for the military and it took a while for the infections to be under contorl. Evern though the infection problem has not been completely solved, infections are now lower because the department and military services strengthen infection, surveillance, control, and prevention in military hospitals. There will be new outbreaks posing as a continued risk as well. The military needs new methods of monitoring infections, and also needs to provide better training. The incidence of drug-resistant infections is a national and global problem that has grown dramatically over the past decade in civilian hospitals, and health experts warn that the problem could get worse in the next several years, as there are few new antibiotic treatments expected to be created by the current drug research pipelin.
MILITARY'S EFFORTS TO OVERSEE DISTANCE LEARNING AND FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES
Military personnel are still seeking out college education opportunities, even with high operation tempo and deployment. In the last decade, the education environment has changed dramatically with distance-learning becoming the predominant method for learning due to its flexibility, and its portability. The bottom line: we must insist that all schools which accept tuition assitance funding offer a quality education... not just a degree.
-- http://armedservices.house.gov
Subcommittees and Membership
IKE SKELTON
U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO) has represented Missouri's Fourth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1977. Skelton, a native of Lexington, is a graduate of Wentworth Military Academy and the University of Missouri at Columbia where he received A.B. and L.L.B. degrees. Skelton was instrumental in bringing the Army Engineer School to Fort Leonard Wood and the B-2 Stealth bomber to Whiteman. He is a former chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Procurement, Tourism
and Rural Development and the Congressional Rural Caucus. He and his late wife Susie have three sons. Skelton remarried Patricia Martin in 2009.
BUCK MCKEON
McKeon was born on September 9, 1938, in Los Angeles. He grew up in Tujunga, CA and graduated from Verdugo Hills High School in 1956. After serving a two and a half year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he attended Brigham Young University. He is the “Champion” of easing the national debt, providing tax relief, preserving Social Security, reforming education, and supporting the troops. He has worked to bolster missile defense programs, supporting funding for the F-22, and has provided enhancements to effective, lighter-weight body armor and mine-resistant vehicles. He also once ran the committee as the chairman.
SUBCOMMITTEE ON AIRLAND
SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMERGING THREATS AND CAPABILITIES
SUBCOMMITTEE ON PERSONNEL
SUBCOMMITTEE ON READINESS AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
SUBCOMMITTEE ON SEAPOWER
SUBCOMMITTEE ON STRATEGIC FORCES